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English

🔊 (music) playing in a different key from the key intended
🔊 the act of reversing the order or place of
🔊 (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
“he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition”
🔊 (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
🔊 (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
🔊 any abnormal position of the organs of the body
🔊 an event in which one thing is substituted for another
“the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood”